NYP: President Barack Obama will announce Friday that the US will completely withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, FOX News Channel reported. Obama is expected to make the announcement at a 12:45 p.m. White House press briefing. Obama held a video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki earlier Friday. “Today the president will announce that we will fulfill our commitment and complete the drawdown

Meh. What’s a few rapes if, in the end, the message of Che Guevara is able to find its voice in a handful of puppets somewhere in some community playhouse in Minnesota?

Time and space don’t come to a screeching halt (Bork endorsed Romney in 2007, as well), but they do think about it briefly.

Here’s an idea: put down the cameras long enough to stop filming your own ostentatious, self-serving sanctimony and write a freakin’ check. If you want to play rubber-suited gimp in a masochism fantasy, try hiring a bonded dominatrix by the hour like the rest of us regular folk. Penn Jillette: It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion.

Eco-fads and the eco-faddists who befad them.

How soon before we see pics on liberal blogs of Cain decked out in blackface and Bojangles attire? Because clearly, one can only be “authentically Black” if one thinks precisely like White liberals tell them they must. Robert Byrd’s Kleagle hood could not be reached for comment. (h/t afs)

Let’s you and I play a game.Whoever wins will dramatically influence the course of American life over the next 30 – 50 years. I’ll set the bounds of the game, I’ll referee, and I’ll report the game. Go. I understand people occasionally wager on the outcome of games. Which side would you bet on in this game? Would you be willing to bet your children and grand-children’s prosperity and freedom

Don’t be silly. Of course they can. It’s one of the benefits of having no principles and being willing to play every side of every issue if it means acquiring, maintaining, or solidifying power. And when you have an orchestrated army of useful idiots willing to do your dirty work for you, not only can you have it both ways, but having it both ways is the point of the

Today, I suppose he’ll call them “the 1%” — and position himself on the side of “the 99%”. Depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing, naturally. **** related: Pros and cons for Perry.

Sure. But he’s going to use that money to get himself re-elected, and once that’s done, he’ll redistribute all the wealth, so that your mortgage and gas bills will be paid and everyone will get an iPad and free broadband internet and a pet Ocelot. So it’s different, you see. Nuance.